Max von Gallwitz

Max von Galwitz (2 May 1852-18 April 1937) was a General of the German Empire who fought in World War I as an army group commander.

Biography
Max von Gallwitz was born on 2 May 1852 in Breslau, Silesia, Prussia (Wroclaw, Poland), and he grew up in a Catholic family. He entered the Prussian Army in 1870 and became a corps commander in 1914, the year that World War I started. In 1915, he was sent to take command of Army Group Gallwitz, taking part in the offensive into Eastern Galicia against the Russian Empire. In 1916, he returned to the Western Front and fought at the Battle of the Somme against the United Kingdom. From 1916 to 1918, he led the German Fifth Army, and he retired from the army after the war ended. From 1920 to 1924, Von Gallwitz served as a German National People's Party deputy to the Reichstag, and he died in 1937.